Michigan Football: 4 predictions for Wolverines 2020-21 season
The non-conference games
Per Michigan football’s official schedule, The Wolverines open up on September 5th, in Seattle, Washington, against the Washington Huskies followed by two riveting matchups with Ball State and Arkansas State.
Go ahead and cross those off your schedules as they won’t be played. There will be no non-conference games for the Wolverines.
The first game of the 2020-21 season will be in the Big House with Wisconsin as the foe (maize out) on September 26th.
Spoke with an AD today who is going to have his staff start modeling out what it means to the dept to have:
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) March 26, 2020
10-game football season
Losing 1 home game
Losing 2 home games
No fans all season
No fans through Oct.
Along with other less optimistic scenarios.
While it’s highly likely the boys in blue will be in pads before the date of the first game, they will do so without offseason workouts and practices. Playing immediately would be the equivalent of a non-runner jumping into a marathon.
If they were to get those first three games in, expect massive injuries to the point where someone throws in the towel, and if it’s Jim Harbaugh, I fully expect the Michigan crazies in the fan base will never let him live it down even if one of the managers were thrust into action as the starting QB.
There is no reason to rush back into action as stated by Arizona State head coach Herm Edwards last month.
“When you rush back, that’s when you get the soft-tissue injuries — hamstrings, Achilles tendons, groins — because you haven’t done anything,” Edwards said. “Pro players, they have a sense of, ‘I gotta work out, I make my living doing this,’ but if you’re a college kid, and a lot don’t have access to gyms where they can lift, it’s not like he’s in football shape.”
Penn State’s James Franklin shared the same sentiment about getting the players back to the gridiron in the safest way possible.
“Is it 30 days, is it 45 days?” Franklin said. “Sixty days? Ninety days? What is it that’s needed to make sure that we’re going to be in good shape, that the players are going to be able to protect themselves and go out and compete on a high level?”
Will there be a football season? Yes.
Will we get to see UM decimate Ball State and Arkansas State? No.